kurban

Albanian

Alternative forms

• korban — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قربان (kurban).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuɾˈban/
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

kurban m (plural kurbane)

1. sacrificed livestock (religion) on Eid or other Muslim holidays or (archaic) when building a house
2. (colloquial) sacrifice (that which is sacrificed)

   Synonyms: fli, theror

3. (colloquial) victim (in a natural disaster)

   Synonym: viktimë

References

• “kurbán,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 922f.
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kurban”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 273f.
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “kurban”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 229a
• Meyer, G. (1891) “kurbán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 215

Esperanto

Adjective

kurban

1. accusative singular of kurba

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay korban, from Arabic قُرْبَان (qurbān), from Aramaic קורבנא (qurbānā). Cognate to Hebrew קָרְבָּן (qorbān). Doublet of korban.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʊrban]
• Hyphenation: kur‧ban

Noun

kurban (first-person possessive kurbanku, second-person possessive kurbanmu, third-person possessive kurbannya)

1. (Islam) the ritual sacrifice at Eid ul-Adha
2. sacrifice to God, gift to God, corban
3. victim, a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   Synonym: korban

Alternative forms

• korban

Derived terms

• berkurban
• mengurbankan

 

Further reading

• “kurban” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قربان (kurban), from Arabic قُرْبَان (qurbān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǔrbaːn/
• Hyphenation: kur‧ban

Noun

kùrbān m (Cyrillic spelling ку̀рба̄н)

1. victim
2. sacrifice

Declension

Declension of kurban

	singular	plural
nominative	kùrbān	kurbani
genitive	kurbána	kurbana
dative	kurbanu	kurbanima
accusative	kurban	kurbane
vocative	kurbane	kurbani
locative	kurbanu	kurbanima
instrumental	kurbanom	kurbanima

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قربان (kurban), from Arabic قُرْبَان (qurbān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuɾban]

Noun

kurban (definite accusative kurbanı, plural kurbanlar)

1. victim
2. sacrifice

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	kurban
Definite accusative	kurbanı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kurban	kurbanlar
Definite accusative	kurbanı	kurbanları
Dative	kurbana	kurbanlara
Locative	kurbanda	kurbanlarda
Ablative	kurbandan	kurbanlardan
Genitive	kurbanın	kurbanların